Geramik requires QtPixmap >=0.26 (QtPixmap is no longer included in the Geramik archive. Get QtPixmap from http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=7043)

Screenshot 2 is of Mandrake's diskdrake - showing the recolouring of buttons.

To install:

...then copy /usr/share/themes/Geramik/gtk/gtkrc to either /etc/gtk/gtkrc or ~/.gtkrc

...or for GTK2, copy
/usr/share/themes/Geramik/gtk-2.0/gtkrc to either /etc/gtk-2.0/gtkrc or ~/.gtkrc-2.0

Changelog:

0.27
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1. Fix ThinGeramik horizontal scrollbar thumb.

0.26
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1. Add "ThinGeramik" - GTK equivalent of ThinKeramik. This is the 1st version,
so will probably have some errors. Note: Menus in GTK2 apps will be the window
colour - can't figure out how to make this different!

Really Good Job! Thank you!

Problems compiling

I am using Mandrake 9.0, but ./configure is not locating GTK+ 1.2 and 2.0. Is there anything I can do to help him locate this files? BTW, I do have the devel packages for GTK+.
And the cooker RPM does not work anymore (maybe because of the texstar packages I have on my system: maybe...) Any tips?

Real nice! Couldn't this be implemented for all QT themes? That would be great!

Qt Themes...

Geramik uses a modified pixmap engine - so I don't think you'd want to use this for plain styles, it'd be too slow.

I'm currently modifying Blue/FreeCurve so that GTK apps get their colour/fonts from ~/.qt/qtrc. (I'm gonna make some other minor mods too - such as having pushbutton text move when the button is pressed). I've modified the GTK2 version, and that seems to work well - so I've just got to make changes to the GTK1, and KDE/Qt version. Hopefully I'll be able to make an initial release soon.

Also, GTK does have a Windows-like theme. So this would make 3 matching styles.

But anyway, you have allready done a so good work, that I should be ashamed to ask you for that.

Merci encore.

Liquid...

...I have though of this. Basically it could be a pixmap theme using the same engine as Geramik, and therefore would follow KDE's colour scheme. 2 problems though; a. Liquid's combo-boxes use two colours (this would make it slightly more difficult to recolour - bot not impossible), b. Liquid uses an arrow to indicate the default button (which i presonally don't like), and I don't think I could do this with a pixmap based GTK theme.

Anyway, once I've completed a modified Blue/Freecurve, and Liquid 0.9.6 final is released - then I may give it a go. However, don't hold your breath I've lots of other things that need doing...

all the necessary patience, because I know that the result, if you have enough time, will be GREAT

fonts on gtk2

How did you get gtk2 apps to show the fonts? On my RH8 Geramik nicely shows fonts chosen on KDE control center, but on any other theme it refuses to do so. Neither does it follow any settings from .gtkrc-2.0.
Only way to see the fonts on other themes, including bluecurve, is to get gnome-settings-daemon running, and it f**ks up my kde desktop...
Not that anyone should ever want to use other theme than Geramik again, but bluecurve is faster on my pII/266.

Fonts...

GTK themes are made up of an engine, and a theme. In Geramik's case the engine is called QTPixmap - and this is a modified/hacked version of GTK's standard Pixmap engine. The main feature change is the fact that it reads ~/.qt/qtrc to obtain KDE's font and colour settings.

Bluecurve, uses its own "bluecurve" engine - and this would set it's fonts in the standard GTK/GNOME way - i.e. through gnome-control-center.

However, I've got a hacked up version of Bluecurve that reads the font/colour settings from ~/.qt/qtrc in the same way as Geramik does. Currently I'm ironing out a few bugs - I'm also trying to make it more consistent between Qt, KDE, GTK1, and GTK2 apps. I should be ready to release an inital version soon - will probably be called QtCurve (and this will be the theme engines only - no icons, etc.)

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